Closure for envelops.



G. P. HOGAN.

CLOSURE FOR ENVELOPS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1a, 1913.

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THE NORRIS Pkl'ERh CO, mlora LITHOU WASH INC TON. u .v

GEORGE F. HOGAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOSURE FOR ENVELOPS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 18, 1913. Serial No. 761,933.

Patented 1111 34, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. IIOGAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Closures for Envelops, of which the following is a specification. y

The main objects of this invention are to provide a closure. for envelops in which there will be a minimum wasteof material; also to provide a closure which will prevent merchandise which is being sent in the envelop from working against the flap of the envelop; and further to provide a closure inwhich the merchandise is so remote from the opening that the possibility of any of the contents spilling, is practically removed. It

is the practice in sendingmerchandise by mail, not to seal the envelop but to secure the flabby a fastener. Nith the ordinary single flap envelop, when closed by a fastener, the entire width of the envelop is sufiiciently exposed to permit the contents of the envelop. to creep out.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a closure for envelops, especially 1 for use with merchandise wherethe envelops areclosed by a fastener, whereinthe greatest possible portion of the opening is securely closed, and to position the necessary exposed portion of the opening so remote from the main portion of the interior of the envelop that the possibility of material creeping out, is practically removed.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showingthe closure before being closed with the body of the envelop broken away. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the closure blank showing the scorings on which the folds are made when closing the closure. Fig. 4 is an elevatoin of the closure partially folded with the body of the envelop and a corner of the closure broken away, and Fig. 5 is a perspective, similar to Fig. 4 with a portion of the closure folded down to show the respective positions of the creases when the closure is folded.

Intheconstruction shown, the envelop has the opening provided at its narrow end, and when closed ready for mailing, the closure has two inclined sides and a straight upper end as shown in Fig. 1. The outline of the closure portion of the blank from which the envelop is made, is rectangular with a recess cut out of each corner as shown in Fig. 3, the side 10 of each of the recesses being perpendicular to the upper edge 11 of the blank and the lower side 12 of each of the recesses being parallel with such upper edge of the blank.

In the manufacture of the envelop, the article 1s passed through a scoring machine toproduce the requisite scores. In addition tance from the upper edge 11 of the blank that the lower side 12 of the recessis. At the. right of the closure portion a score 15 runs from the point where the score 13 crosses the score 14 to the angle 16 of the corner recess. To facilitate the description, the point where the score 13 meets the edge 11 is designated '18. A point 17 oneclge 11 designates a distance to the left from point 18 which is approximately the distance from the upper edge 11 to the score 14. From this point 17 a score 19 is extended diagonally to thepoint where the score 13 crosses the score 14. At a point 20 on the upper edge 11 which point 20 is at a distance from the side 10 to the loft thereof of approximately the length of the side 12, a score 21 is extended down to meet score 19. The left of the closure end of the blank is identical with the right only that the lines run in the opposite direction. Therefore, the scores of the left side of the closure blank may be desig Q o p o 1,105,785

fuses the'envelop to mail or forward mer chandise,l ie will, after fillingthe envelop,

thrustthe corners 18, 18 inward to the position shown in Fig. 4. Then, with reference to Fig. 4, hewill fold the edge 11 over so that the eyelet 26 can be engaged by the fingers 27, 27 which are secured in the upper end of the side 23 of the blank. These fingers 27,27 after being passed through the eyelet 26 are pressed down, in the present instance, in opposite directions, in a line parallel to the upperedge 11. The space where the eyelet is positioned, is made as narrow'as possible by having the edge 11 on either side of it bend down as close as possible'to the eyelet'without.interfering with its utility. Furthermore, the space is made so narrow that when the fingers 27, 27 are secured in place, they project over the location of the edges 11, 11 as shown in .Fig. ,1, and thus the edges 11, 11 will serve as a reinforcement, should the ends of the fingers V 27, 27 bore through the first layer of paper. To further lock the envelop, the entire 010- 3 sure end may be bent over on the score 14.

When the entire'closure end of the envelop j is bent over onthe score 14 with the fastener lyingflagainst the body of the envelop, an additional protection to the fastener will thereby be afforded.

It will be seen-with reference to Fig. 41, that merchandise which is inclosed in the envelop will be prevented from working itself 1 up against the flap of the envelop on account of the projections formed by the inward turned corners 18,- 18. It will also be seen I that a very smallportion of the opening can be reached by looSe merchandise such.

as grain, and that this small portionof the opening is so remote from the bulk of the merchandise, that the possibility of any material creeping out through removed. r 7 While there is herein shown and described it, is practically but one embodiment of the invention, it is to be-understood that various changes and modifications may be made'by those skilled .in the art without departing from thescope of the invention in the'appended claims.

' Having thus described my invention, what I I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: a I

w 1. In a flat merchandise envelop having-a longitudinal seam and a closed bottom,-a

closure for the" top; comprising"corners doubled nward between the front and rear walls of the envelop and lying fiat against those walls, the upper end of the envelop being bent over the doubled-incorners and fastened in place.

2. A flat merchandise envelop having its corners at the open end thereof doubled inward between the front and rear walls of the zenvelo-p and lying flat against" those walls, and with the front Wall projecting beyond the rear Wall, and adapted to bend 1 back to overlap the rear wall and there fasten in' place to keep the folded-in portions from coming out again.

gitudinal seam and having a closure com- A merchandise envelop having a lonp prising a notchedrearwall and a front wall projecting beyond the notch, said closure having corners doubledxinon either side of this notch to form a flap 1 of that portion of the front'wall which projects beyond the" 1 notch, said flap being adapted to fold down over the rear wall and there fasten in place to keep out. 1

Inwitness whereof, I hereunto subscribe the folded-in portions fromcoming 1 my name to this p i t in the ptesencie l of two witnesses.

' GEORGE F; HOGAN.

- WVitnesses:

GUsTAv DREws," LV. GURRA Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissionerof Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

